Rosatom has decided to unite on the basis of its trading house the Tekhsnabexport company (Tenex, which exports processed uranium to NPPs) and its foreign trading in natural uranium, previously conducted by Uranium One. The decision was taken in late 2017. At the same time last summer U1 intended to actively develop its own trading,…

The foundry-rolling complex of Vyksa Iron and Steel Works has produced 10 million tons of steel since its commissioning. The complex employs some 1 thousand people. The manufacture of its own steel coils allows the complex to effectively manage expenses, quickly respond to market needs and decrease the time of delivery to customers. This year…

Interpipe has certified its premium tight gas threaded joints UPJ-M for the correspondence to ISO 13679 CAL IV. “The certificate confirms the correspondence of the joints to the highest level of requirements. The tests have been carried out in Italy”, the company said in a statement. The UPJ-M joints can be used in the most…

Volnogorsk Mining and Processing Works has announced the purchase of 14 hinged dump trucks with the lifting capacity of 55 tons at the expected price of 400 million UAH. On December 20, 2017 the company announced the purchase of 7 dump trucks at the price of 200 million UAH, and on January 4 – 7…

Energomashspetsstal has finished the shipping of bulk machinery to ISD Dunaferr (Hungary). In particular, the company has shipped 10 slag ladles with the volume of 11 and 16 cubic meters. The total weight of the ladles was 200.5 tons. The delivery is performed under the contract signed in August 2017. According to the agreement, the…

PAO Severstal, one of the world’s leading vertically integrated steelmaking and mining companies, has launched a production line for polymer-coated rolled steel products at Cherepovets Steel Mill Metal Coating Workshop number 3 (MCW No. 3). The launch ceremony was attended by Alexey Mordashov, Chairman of Severstal’s board of directors, Alexander Shevelev, CEO of Severstal, Oleg…

Metalloinvest, a leading global iron ore and HBI producer and supplier, and one of the regional producers of high-quality steel, has signed an agreement with a club of banks for a $240 million pre-export finance facility (the “PXF-2018”). The new PXF has a 5-year tenor with a 4-year grace period; interest rate is linked to…

Mechel PAO reports its results in the Ecological Awareness Year announced in Russia in 2017. The group’s production facilities implemented a series of large-scale projects in a bid to improve the ecological situation in the regions of its production and administrative operations. Those include: – Mechel-Coke conducted technical upgrading of its benzene facility in the…

Belarus Iron and Steel Works is asking its lenders to postpone the payment of $70 million from this year to the next. “On the verge of 2015 and 2016, when we had a difficult period, we did take the state aid. Now we are paying back interest on those loans. In 2018 we have to…

SAT&Company intends to build a mining and processing works at the Gornostayevskoye deposits in the East Kazakhstan region valued at $252.5 million. The GOK will process cobalt-nickel ores and extract nickel, cobalt and FN-20 ferronickel. The project capacity will be 1.9 million tons of ore and 9.5 thousand tons of nickel material per year. In…

The Ministry of Finances suggests increasing the volume of sanctions for the breach of precious metals and stones mining, using and storing rules. The maximum fines for companies and individual entrepreneurs could increase 5-fold, to 250 thousand rubles, for officials – 4.7-fold, to 70 thousand rubles. The decision is aimed at decreasing the grey market.…

ArcelorMittal Temirtau has been fined for 600 million tenge for the damaged caused to the environment. The Department of ecology says that this fine has nothing to do with the black snow. At the same time the company has been fined for polluting the environment. “The air pollution exceeded the norms. The company also failed…

Since the start of the year the prices of precious metals have increased by 6% as opposed to the 1.5% growth in the last week of 2017. For January 8-14 the following sales prices are set: gold – 20462.92 drams per 1 gram (up by 4.8%), silver – 266.26 drams (up by 6.8%), platinum –…

In 2017 the uranium holding ARMZ mined 3 thousand tons of uranium, having 100% fulfilled its annual target. In particular, its Khiagda enterprise obtained 693 tons of uranium. It is expected that the company will reach the project capacity of 1 thousand tons per year in 2019. Dalur retained its output volume and extracted 592…

In 2017 Priisk Solovievsky, which extracts gold in Amur and Zabaikalye regions, obtained 3.5 tons of gold, up by 40% YoY, or by 1 ton. The main volume – 3127 kg – was mined in Amur region deposits. The rest was obtained from alluvial gold sites in Zabaikalye. The increase has to do with the…

In 2017 Zaporozhogneupor increased output of molded refractories by 8% YoY, to 102.571 thousand tons. According to the company statement, manufacture of high-aluminous wares grew by 27%, to 16.246 thousand tons, magnesia wares – by 15%, to 43.652 thousand tons, while that of chamotte refractories dropped by 3%, to 42.672 thousand tons. In December 2017…

In 2017 Russkiy Ugol mined 842 thousand tons of coal in Krasnoyarsk region, up by 4% from the plan and by 7% YoY. The increase is the result of the new machinery acquisition. Thus, the company purchased 55-ton BelAZ trucks, Komatsu excavators and bulldozers. Russkiy Ugol started developing the Sayano-Partizansky pit in 1991, but only…

A new investor – the Region Group of Companies – appeared at the Saratov Works of Reservoir Metal Structures, which is in the insolvency procedure. “We have decreased expenses to the minimum. January and February are already loaded, we have no debts. We hope that the situation improves”, the company CEO Mikhail Savran said. (Ukrainian…

Zlatoust Electrometallurgical Works goes on with its projects to expand the grade and section portfolio. In particular, in 2017 it started manufacturing new grades of heat-resistant steel (ep99id, ep648vi, ep718 and ei943). These grades are widely used in the manufacture of structure elements and parts operating under high temperature. Last year ZEMZ also started manufacturing…

Chelyabinsk Iron and Steel Works has sold 1.5 million tons of rail and beam rolled metal since the corresponding mill has been put in operation. ChMK rails are shipped to the Russian Railroads and used in Moscow subway construction and industrial sites of major companies, as well as exported to Belarus and Kazakhstan. The main…

Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) has received a successful supervisory audit of its environmental management system by meeting the requirements of a new version of the international standard ISO 14001. Following the assessment, specialists representing the authoritative international certification body TÜV Nord Cert (Germany) confirmed that the system entirely met the requirements of the…